Quotes about Appearance

I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance.

We hide what we know or feel ourselves to be (which we assume to be unacceptable and unlovable) behind some kind of appearance which we hope will be more pleasing. We hide behind pretty faces which we put on for the benefit of our public. And in time we may even come to forget that we are hiding, and think that our assumed pretty face is what we really look like.

Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

And this point is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love.

After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.

The inner, the real and the unseen are irrelevant in today's world. All that counts is appearance, and the world of consumerism has lost no time in catering to every need, and then creating even more, in this burgeoning market of the appearance.

Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.